Mar

“An equation: 40,000 dead young men = 3,000 tons of bone and flesh, 124,000 pounds of brain matter, 50,000 gallons of blood, 1,840,000 years of life that will never be lived, 100,000 children that will never be born (the last we can afford: there are too many starving children in the world already).”
― Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun

“Anytime I felt hopeless or lost, I went to one of those brothers and asked to look out their window. I said to the sea, 'Nice to see you again, my friend. People change, but you never do.”
― Mansoor Adayfi, Don't Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo

“What, for example, could be more calculated to produce brutal wife-beaters than long practice of savage cruelty towards the other animals?"
-Edith Ward”
― Carol J. Adams, The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory

“We lived in a golden age, but it was still a hell. Even in that hell, we created small, beautiful moments that made us feel alive again.”
― Mansoor Adayfi, Don't Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo